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TOTSDAY, JUNE T, 1949 BLYTHEVILLS (ARK.) COURIER NEWS PAGE THTKTEEN OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams Our Boarding HOUM with Maj. Hooplc Artist Reconsiders His Suicide Try in Mid-Air MELBOURNE OP)—Sidney Charles Dyer, tired of lite, dived from his Melbourne hotel window. 40 feet above the street. In the air he made a -snap decision to live sonic more. Today he is still alive. Dyer told police that when he felt himself falling through space, he wanted to keep on living. "I twisted in air and back-somersaulted on to a shop veranda next to the hotel." fie said. The fall knocked him uncon- COffttGHT «T mjGM LAWCiMCt MOWN Nelson Warre-» •» Htmry G«*« tnic'M £>»«••*••» I* Inn 4 WM •• till »hr fl»dn lit (I* I* p«l »T wf It.* ktkf-T tvt-vt* i»h« FM and AM 7 Tubes Plus Rectifier Listen to the BaH Game In Noise-Free Comfort $5 DOWN $5 A MONTH D R EIFI S I tin) flreirui . . . •HEBIIHK__ tnm i. .Una. mnrnitu u. t*K H*rdr».«c'" .hrrp xhr i* b* MIftfu+1 Oak. thr rnpialn Slmptiilra. «ae Hnlilnc J»o>l whirl* hrnairlil Hra. I, Illy. AK«^ Firth • •4 Mabel Jaiirk t» thr a|ji*rr. Oak r^llB Bea that hU broia«r w»« •»•* of fnnr w*rk.w«ai kilUJ by arrl- ilrni nm Ihr UlaaJ whrm Hurilmfc wa» fi<cJn* fl •». Oik «!•*» »d- Mll» plarip**: lltllr u jAk«M H *• Harrtinc 1* torwf-nl alM. Thr «•••- XXI '""THE boss wants to see you right away," Bascombe said. He sat down beside Bea and stared gloomily at the sheep^ "Silly things." he commented. "They remind me of people." "What does Harding want?" "Harding? Who said anything about Harding? I was talking about my boss. Mr. Fred Sillwell.' "What's the matter with you today?" Bascombe grinned sourly."Nothing like a nice suicide to cheer people up. Not." he added hastily, "that I have any personal feeling about her death." "Nothing personal? But there's something personal bothering you, I have it Your little deal with Sillwell about the whiskey ha backfired?" George glanced at her, averted his eyes quickly. "No. That's the one bright spot. Little George Bascombe at his best. No. Fred's still buying. What he gets from Harding only .makes him thirsty." "He's young for a confirmed alcoholic." "Fred never was young. Fred is impolite when he's kepi waiting It may not matter to you but H does to me." Bea got up, started the sheep down the trail. "I don't see why you're so afraid of Sillwell." "No, you don't do you?" George grunted. "Say. have you misse< any sheep lately?" scions, but Dyer, 3S, is he suffered only bruises. an artist. [HP GRXYFS COMPANY I've never counted them Why?" Georue kicked a pebblt h) the rail. "Any wild animals on the sland* Bi( enough to kill iheep mean." \ "The cavri You've heard the ;a.sping in the cave." "Yeah I heard H." He dW not sound much impressed. "I thought he sound effects would help. rfonster guard! gold—and my hiskey too." Bea kept her voice casual, "How did you know about the supposed treasure of the cave?" "Lilly told me. She had aotrw dea of hunting for it." • • • T4TISS COSGROVE remembered LTJ the group o( women at the lower room door when she had ueen reading alourt from the History of Speare Island. "She tell anyone else?" "I don't know." George hesitated, recovered quickly. "The next day the whiskey was still there." She knew what he had started to say. Lilly hadn't had much time to tell anyone else. "You remember the day we hid the whiskey?" George asked abruptly. "Did you smell anything tunny then?" "No. Why?" "The cave smells now. Maybe it's because of the blood." Bea realized he had reached the true hasis for his unhappy (rame of mind. "What blood?" "Oh there was some sheep woo there too. And blood splattered on the whiskey cases." "Sheep blood? Or Lilly Warren's?" George Bascombe pushed fing' ers under the brim of hie borrowet h;il, tilted it back on his heac "How could she have killed her self there and been found in the car?" "There w»i whiskey in the cave," Bea reminded him. "And I suppose you mean could have found her and movi 4% HOME LOANS Blbert S. Johnson The Kquitable Lite Assurance Society Phone GZ28 O > t f ' ' 1 \ BH THE Ml i Phon* 30751 Mrs. Minnie Lee Jones Kemp Offering Summer Classes in PIANO For Beginners—Intermediates—Advanced Pupils Special Rates for Summer Course ENROLL NOW Studio 807 Chickasawba Phone 2994 MINNOWS WHITE RIVER SHINERS and GOLD FISH • G. C. Hawks • 328 E. Main Phone 3292 BEN WHITE & SONS GENERAL CONTRACTORS MAIM OFFICE NORTH TENTH Pho-e 315: PRESCRIPTIONS Fresh Stock Guaranteed Best Prices Kirby Drug Stores er to save my cache. Don't foe- gel the alibis." What alibis? I want to M« the ave. George." 'Go ahead. I cleaned up though, 'm a tidy housekeeper. You wont nd anything." Then why tell me ibout it?" "I thought you'd know how many sheep there are." "I'll find out." Bea promised. Ihe counted silently. "There're 17 now." 'Can't we hurry these sheep a ittle?'' 'Why not tell them Fred Sill- well is wailing?'' Bea asked drily. "That ought to icare them into running." • • • 1ED SILL WELL waited tor them at the door o( the small building which served as quarters r or the two men. "So you anally got here!" He flared at Bea. "You come on in," he snapped. "Beat It, George." Bascombe grinned meaningly at ea Cosgrove as she went inside. The single room, to spite of ona McGuire's efforts, was dirty. The two unmade cots showed .ousled covers stained with streaks of grease and dust. Everywhere was a litter of salvage from the ~ullwing, for the most part cameras and photographic equipment to be overhauled. , Fred Sillwell dug around under one of the cots and produced a half-filled bottle. "Sit down." he suggested. "I'm glad you're not a drinker. The stuff's too scarce these days." Bea sat down on "one cot. Sill- well looked at her a moment, smiled, sat down beside her. "You're too good looking to be on this dinky island." •Miss Cosgrove shrugged off his arm with a mechanical gesture. "You don't have to go Into that routine." "All right," Fred said. "But you never can tell until you try. Some women do." "I'm sure you're very hot stuff," Bea said. She got up. "Hold it," Sillwell ordered. "We'll leave out that angle. There's something you can do for m« though." (T. Be Ontinned) FOR SALE Concrete culverts. 1£ Inch to Inch, plain or trtnforeed. 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